Paseo Artístico: Women and Indigenous Resilience

6529

Sat Oct 13, 2018 • 2 to 5 pm
Theatre (1st floor) & Mission Gráfica (4th floor)
Free • Music • Interactive Tour

Tribute to Women and Indigenous Resilience.

Live music by Troublemakers Union from 4:30 pm to 5 pm in the theatre!

Interactive tour of Mission Grâfica from 2 pm to 4 pm.

Tertulias Literarias: El Laberinto de los Espiritus

6520

Wed Oct 3rd, 2018 • 7pm to 8:30pm
Free • La Salita (2nd floor)

In coordination with the Public Library of San Francisco, MCCLA presents a book club for the community.

Book of the month: El Laberinto de los Espiritus by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. (Reading in Spanish)

For more information please contact Ramon Hernandez at Ramon.Hernandez@sfpl.org or call 415-355-2800.

Drumming For Carlos

5930

Sat Sep 22, 2018 • 1:30 to 3pm
Free • Studio B (3rd floor)

At his passing in 2006, Carlos Aceituno was a beloved Omulu Capoeira master, teacher and the founder of the award-winning Fogo Na Roupa Carnaval group. Scores of elementary, high school students, and adults learned capoeira and Brazilian culture through his exemplary teaching style.

Carlos was the recipient of the prestigious Cesar Chavez “Si se puede” award on March 31, 2007. The City of San Francisco declared May 18th “Carlos Aceituno Day”.

The Prida Project

5840

Sept 20, 21, 22, 27, 28 & 29, 2018 • 7pm
Sept 30, 2018 • 2pm
Theatre • $20 Ticket
$14 for Students & Seniors with ID
$14 early bird until Sep 16

The Prida Project is a glorious collage of the music, dance, theatre and poetry of groundbreaking Cuban American playwright Dolores Prida. This world premiere takes you on a unique journey as it explores pressing themes including immigration, gentrification and cultural identity. These challenges are approached with strength, humor, and humanity.

The piece consists of adaptations of two of her plays interwoven with her poetry and essays. Music and dance and interspersed throughout.

An Actor's Equity approved project.

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We thank our sponsors:
The Rainin Foundation
The Jewish Community Foundation
The Zellerbach Family Fund

Playwrights adaptation of the work of Dolores Prida
Rosa Boshier
Claudia Rosa*
*courtesy of Actor's Equity Association

Artistic Director
Claudia Rosa

Director
Amy Crumpacker

Musical Director
Omar Ledezma, Jr.

Choreographers
Temistocles Fuentes Betancourt
Karen Puerto

Set Design and Projections
Melanie Treuhaft

Sound Design
Laurence Tasse

Production Assistant
Pamela Cruz

Cast
Janelle Aguirre
Olivia Browne
Leticia Duarte
Nancy Lemmel
Maria Medina
Claudia Rosa

Musicians
Hector Benites
Joseph Churchill
David Pedroso Rivero

Redobles de Cultura Presents: Bomba & Plena Workshop

5924

Wed Sept 19, 2018 • 3:30 to 5pm
$20 Admission • Studio B (3rd Floor)

NYC group Redobles de Cultura is coming to the Bay Area to lead a Master Dance Workshop on Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba at the MCCLA! Their goal is to preserve the rich music of Puerto Rico through education, collaboration, and performances in schools and throughout the community.

Join us for this one day special workshop!

Come ready to dance and learn about Puerto Rico’s rich musical traditions.

Please bring comfortable clothes and shoes, no heels, no boots.

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Fiesta de las Americas

5928

Sun Sep 16, 2018 • 11am to 5pm
Free • Adobe Books (3130 24th St)
Art Class • Music

Fiesta de la Americas celebrates the unique Latino diaspora experiences which have cemented the arts, commerce, and culture of San Francisco's Latino Cultural District.

For more info, visit the the Calle 24 Website - Fiesta de las Americas.

MCCLA’s Carnaval 2019 Brainstorming Meeting

6036

Sat Sept 15, 2018 • 11am to 12:30pm
Cafe de la Muerte (2nd floor)
Everybody Welcome!

Tertulias Literarias: La muerte de Artemio Cruz

5927

Wed Sep 5th, 2018 • 7pm to 8:30pm
Free • La Salita (2nd floor)

In coordination with the Public Library of San Francisco, MCCLA presents a book club for the community.

Book of the month: La muerte de Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes. (reading in Spanish)

For more information please contact Ramon Hernandez at Ramon.Hernandez@sfpl.org or call 415-355-2800.

Cine Con Cultura: Sin Nombre

5736

Wed Aug 29, 2018 • 7 to 9pm
$7 Donation • Theatre • 18+

We are exploring many different layers of Cinema, this month we are presenting Busqueda! Documentaries and films about the search for missing persons, the search for better life opportunities, and the search for oneself. Movies with subtitles in English.

Sin Nombre. Cary Fukunaga. 2009

Willy, nicknamed El Casper, is a member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang and lives in Tapachula, a Mexican town near the border with Guatemala. He introduces a young boy into his gang, and the boy is given the nickname Smiley after a violent initiation. Casper later helps Smiley to complete this initiation by helping him execute a rival gang member. Casper is romantically involved with a girl, Martha Marlen. Fearing for the girl's safety, he keeps the relationship a secret from his gang, but his double life causes his gang to doubt his loyalty. When Martha follows Casper to a gathering of his gang, the gang leader, Lil Mago, escorts her out, despite Casper's misgivings. Mago attempts to rape Martha and accidentally kills her. Later, he blithely tells Casper that he will find another.

Shortly afterward, Mago brings Casper and Smiley to La Bombilla, a location along the train tracks where potential illegal immigrants stow away on passing trains on their way to the United States. Among the immigrants is a Honduran family introduced earlier consisting of the teenage girl Sayra, her father, and her uncle, who are on their way to relatives in New Jersey. Lil Mago, Casper, and Smiley rob the passengers for any money they have until Lil Mago spots Sayra and attempts to rape her. Casper intervenes, killing Mago and then sending Smiley off.

Cine Con Cultura: La Jaula de Oro

5737

Wed Aug 22, 2018 • 7 to 9pm
$7 Donation • Theatre • 18+

We are exploring many different layers of Cinema, this month we are presenting Busqueda! Documentaries and films about the search for missing persons, the search for better life opportunities, and the search for oneself. Movies with subtitles in English.

La Jaula de Oro. Diego Quemada Diez. 2010

The 1987 film, and the song, the plot concerns immigration to the United States from Latin American countries. However, unlike the earlier film that concerned itself with a successful and middle-aged Mexican immigrant, the plot of this film deals with younger undocumented immigrants.

Samuel, Sara and Juan, three teenagers from Guatemala, decide to leave poverty by going to the United States. After crossing the Mexican border by boat, they find another immigrant, a Tzotzil native called Chauk who does not know Spanish but is able to befriend Sara. When they arrive in the town of Chiapas, they busk for money to eat and drink but are later caught by Mexican Immigration Police agents, who steal Juan's boots and threaten Chauk with a gun, before deporting all of them back to Guatemala